Re: Installing FreeBSD on a 20Gb disc on a laptop with old BIOS

Hi, I'm not sure wether I've had this problem, but to me it seems that the right solution is: * let the IBM DM make that FAT partition, because that's what helps fdisk recognize the correct disk geometry (see the docs) * in the sysinstall delete that FAT partition and make one small s

Installing FreeBSD on a 20Gb disc on a laptop with old BIOS

Hi, I have an old IBM thinkpad 560 that I want to runt FreeBSD on. The original drive is only 2Gb so I upgraded to a 20Gb. Now it turned out that the BIOS was to old to support this and the laptop locked-up during the initialization phase before booting. DDO(Dynamic Drive Overlay) from OnTrack so